Prominent hacker shows off his latest iOS jailbreak

Mar 17, 2012 11:57 GMT  ·  By

German security researcher Stefan Esser has done it again! The hacking guru has managed to achieve an untethered jailbreak of the third-generation iPad running iOS 5.1.

After seeing that another prominent hacker had posted evidence of an iPad 3 jailbreak on the web, the (seemingly) competitive Esser issued the following message to his 80K+ Twitter followers:

“So Musclenerd showed pics of jailbroken ipad3 already.guess i have to show video of untethered ipad3 then…” Minutes later, he returned with this message “Okay my iPad3,3 is now untethered jailbroken…” and then a link to the actual footage.

Titled “Untethered Jailbreak 5.1 / iPad3,3 / The New iPad untethered jailbroken on day of release,” the video in question is available above for your viewing pleasure.

“The video just shows that is was jailbroken untethered. Nothing more, nothing less,” Esser said.